Life-history of Our PlanetR. Worthington, 1876 - 368 páginas |
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America Ammonite ancestor animal Apes appears Archæan Asia atom Bird body bones bowlders brain bronze carbon Carboniferous carnivorous cave Chimpanzee clay copper coral creation Cretaceous Crinoids crust Deer Devonian Dinosaur earth embryo Eocene Fern Fish foot fossil gills glace glacial glacier globe Glyptodon Gorilla granite gravel growth head heat human hundred feet incisors Indian Jura Lake land lava Leda clay ledges limbs limestone living lower Mammals marsh Marsupials Megalosaurus mer de glace mesozoic miles mind molecule Mound-builder mounds mountain mouth nature Neolithic nose ocean organ pass period plants primeval Quillabamba race ravine record represents Reptile Rhone Glacier ribs ridges rivers rocks sand Saurians sediment septa shell shores Silurian skin skull slanting snow species stalagmite stone strata structure surface teeth thick thousand feet tion Triassic tribe valley vertebrate
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Página 324 - ... inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for us to inquire into it.
Página 322 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Página 148 - The grassy clods now calved ; now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts ; then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Página 322 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Página 322 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge ; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Página 3 - They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man...
Página 214 - And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Página 89 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 322 - I see another law of my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. O! wretched man that I am.
Página 318 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.